Hemingway, Dos Passos, Cather, Lewis, and the American Style

Assesses Hemingway’s early contributions to American modernism evidenced in the experimental style and structure of his poetry and fiction. Wagner-Martin examines the author’s versatile treatment of love and war, particularly the traumatized condition of the returning veteran, in “Soldier’s Home,” “Big Two-Hearted River,” The Sun Also Rises, and A Farewell to Arms